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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Mountain Tops

John Bakeless

OH, splendid are the mountain tops

That thrust aside the sky;

No dweller in the valley land

Has thrilled in them as I!

But lonely are the mountain tops

To him who walks apart—

No peasant in the valley land

Bears half so hurt a heart!